Kott language
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Kott | |
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Kot, Kottish | |
kottuen | |
Native to | Asan |
Extinct | early 19th century |
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Dialects | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | zko |
zko.html | |
Glottolog | kott1239 |
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The Kott (Kot) language (
Geography
Kott was spoken to the southeast of Krasnoyarsk, in the Biryusa and Kan river basins. However, hydronyms indicate a much wider area in the past, ranging from the Uda and Chuna rivers in the east to the Tom in the west.[3]
Etymology
The term kott may be derived from Buryat qota 'town', applied to neighbouring non-pastoral peoples, including the last few Kotts.[4]
Documentation
One of the earliest written records of Kott is in 1791, with the publication of Peter Simon Pallas's Сравнительный словарь всѣхъ языковъ и нарѣчій, по азбучному порядку расположенный, a comparative dictionary of variuos world languages and dialects. In 1858, Matthias Castrén published the grammar and dictionary (Versuch einer jenissei-ostjakischen und kottischen Sprachlehre), which included material on the Kott and Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak) languages, recording two different dialects of Kott.[1] There also exists two books written by Heinrich Werner about the Kott language, namely Коттский язык (Kottskij jazyk), which includes a 110-page Russian-Kott glossary,[5] and Abriß der kottischen Grammatik.[2]
Phonology
Vowels
In multisyllabic words, vowel length is phonemic.
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i [i] | (ɨ [ɨ])1 | u [u] |
Close-mid | e [e] | o [o] | |
Open-mid | ɛ [ɛ] | ɔ [ɔ] | |
Open | ä [æ] | a [a] |
- [ɨ] is only attested in a few words dated to the 18th century, and can be considered an allophone of [i].[2]
Vajda 2024 gives a different vowel system for Kott, based off of Castrén 1858.[4]
Front | Central | Back | ||||
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short | long | short | long | short | long | |
Close | i [i] | î [iː] | u [u] | û [uː] | ||
Mid | e [e] | ê [eː] | o [o] | ô [oː] | ||
Open | a [a] | â [aː] |
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Laryngeal | |||
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Occlusive | voiceless | plain | p [p] | t [ t ]
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tʼ [tʲ] | k [k] | q [q] | [ʔ] | |
aspirated | pʰ [pʰ] | tʰ [tʰ] | |||||||
voiced | b [b] | d [ d ]
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dʼ [dʲ] | g [g] | G [ɢ] | ||||
Fricative | voiceless | f [f] | s [s] š [ʃ] | x [x] | X [χ] | ħ [ħ] | h [h] | ||
voiced | R [ʀ] | ||||||||
Affricate | voiceless | č [t͡ʃ] | |||||||
voiced | dž [d͡ʒ] | ||||||||
Nasal | m [m] | n [ n ]
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nʼ [nʲ] | ŋ [ŋ] | |||||
Approximant | j [j] | ||||||||
Lateral | l [ l] lʼ [lʲ ]
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Trill | r [ r ]
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Labial | Dental | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Laryngeal/ Pharyngeal | |||
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Plosive | voiceless | plain | p [p] | t [ t ]
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tʼ [tʲ] | k [k] | q [q] | ʔ [ʔ] | |
aspirated | pʰ [pʰ] | tʰ [tʰ] | |||||||
voiced | b [b] | d [ d ]
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dʼ [dʲ] | g [g] | G [ɢ] | ||||
Fricative | voiceless | f [f] | s [s] | š [ʃ] | j [j] | x [x] | χ [χ] | h [h] | |
voiced | |||||||||
Affricate | č [t͡ʃ] | ||||||||
Lateral | l [ l ]
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lʼ [lʲ] | |||||||
Trill | r [ r ]
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Nasal | m [m] | n [ n ]
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nʼ [nʲ] | ŋ [ŋ] |
Influence from Turkic
Kott had been influenced by
Grammar
Kott has special end markings to indicate that the noun being described is a hydronym which are -šet/čet.[2][1]
Kott typically uses SVO word order, and is agglutinative.
Case
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Kott has 7 cases. The dative, ablative and locative cases developed from possesed nouns, similarly to Ket and Yugh.
singular | plural | |||
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feminine and
neuter |
masculine | inanimate | animate | |
Basic | -∅ | |||
Genitive | =i | =aː | =ŋ | =i |
Dative | =iga | =aːʔa | =ŋa | =iga |
Locative | =ihaːt | =aːhaːt | =ŋhaː ~ =ŋaːt | =ihaːt |
Ablative | =ičaŋ | =aːčaŋ | =nčaŋ | =ičaŋ |
Instrumental | =oː | =oː | =oː | =oː |
Comitative | =oš (=aš) | =oš (=aš) | =oš (=aš) | =oš (=aš) |
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-901903-58-4.
- ^ ISBN 3-447-03971-X.
- ^ "КОТТСКИЙ ЯЗЫК • Большая российская энциклопедия - электронная версия". old.bigenc.ru. Retrieved 2024-06-30.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-11-055621-6, retrieved 2024-06-26
- ^ ISBN 5-7507-0357-6.
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